JI demands FIR against attack on MPA

Lyari MPA was tortured allegedly for exposing hospital corruption

KARACHI:

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi chief Engr Hafiz Naeemur Rehman strongly condemned the torture on the MPA from Lyari - Syed Abdul Rasheed - for exposing massive corruption in Lyari General Hospital and Nursing College as well as Benazir Bhutto Medical College. 

The JI leader was addressing a press conference along with the MPA and other JI leaders at JI Karachi headquarters, here on Wednesday. Sindh Assembly Works and Services Committee Chairman Syed Abdul Rasheed - a JI leader and representative of the people of Lyari on the floor of the provincial assembly - also addressed the presser and shared his ordeal with the media.

Naeem demanded of the authorities to file the first information report of the heinous act and take action against all those involved. He also demanded of the authorities to take strict action against the corrupt elements and their patrons.

Highlighting a very strange aspect of the incident and the following series of events, the JI leader said that the FIR was not registered despite the orders by the Inspector General of Police, Sindh and speaker of the Sindh Assembly. Who is sheltering the corrupt mafia in the government sector? Are the forces behind the corruption mafia more powerful than the law and authorities?, he asked and put question marks on the writ of the government and the state.

Syed Abdul Rasheed while addressing the presser said that his struggle against the corrupt elements in the public sector suggests that even fine souls in the PPP are helpless against the corrupt elements in the party.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 22^nd, 2022.